Word: paragone
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...Spain is everything you want in a champion. From goalkeeper Iker Casillas to strikers Torres and David Villa, Spain was superb in every area of the pitch, a paragon of possession, of knife-edge passing, and, for once, capable of imposing its style on everyone. The notable exception was the quarterfinal match with Italy, but that, too, marked this Spanish team as special - locked into a defensive mud-wrestling match, Spain resisted its historical urge to attack at any cost, even at the risk of committing the cardinal sin for a Spanish footballer: being boring. In its semifinal against Russia...
...Shannon's mother, initially held up as a paragon of noble stoicism, appeared to incorrectly state how many children she had in media interviews (she said six; in reality she has seven children from five fathers). Then came the connection to the television show, Shameless, a satire on residents of council estates, and their harebrained schemes to claw themselves out. As anger turned on the Matthews family this week, police boarded up the house Shannon and her family had inhabited and distributed leaflets to local residents instructing them "not to jump to conclusions about people who may be involved...
...family structure are reshaping Spain's economic and social future. In the March 9 elections, Spanish voters will decide whether to give a second term to Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the unlikely revolutionary whose four-year overhaul of social legislation has made Spain a paragon of progressive family law. Popular Party challenger Mariano Rajoy has attempted to tap into what he sees as an underlying distrust of those rapid changes, but even he shies away from addressing them directly because he is aware that his allies in the Catholic Church hierarchy awaken distrust as well...
...widely admired example of how a local, through hard work and artfulness, could ascend to the top of the establishment. Since her retirement six years ago, Chan's stature has barely diminished. With a patrician demeanor that can convey both hauteur and charisma, she is the paragon of the city's haute bourgeoisie. The city's working people treat her like a queen. And although she served in Hong Kong's first postcolonial administration until 2001, she adroitly kept a distance from its unpopular head, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa. This, plus her advocacy of speedier democratic reforms in defiance...
...this version of Family Affair unfolding in Bangladesh or the Philippines? Think again. It's Japan, long held up as the paragon of a mature Asian democracy, yet which continues to serve up political leaders distinguishable only by subtleties of grey in their ideological coloration. Yasuo Fukuda, the leading candidate to replace Shinzo Abe as Japan's next PM, and Fukuda's rival, Taro Aso, appear to be trying to differentiate themselves as the Sept. 23 Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) election approaches. Aso is pegged as a tough-talking hawk, Fukuda a diplomatic dove. But both are products...